Creationist home school curriculum isn’t just inaccurate — it’s really, really dumb

[xchrom]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/10/creationist-home-school-curriculum-isnt-just-inaccurate-its-really-really-dumb/




A popular curriculum used by home-schooled students has drawn criticism for inaccurate, misleading information and an over-reliance on rote memorization, but those aspects may not be the worst things about it.

A lot of the material that children are exposed to in the Accelerated Christian Education is just astonishingly stupid, according to a former Christian fundamentalist.

Blogger Jonny Scarmanga shared some of the multiple-choice questions he found in some ACE packets used by British home-school students Monday on the blog, Leaving Fundamentalism.

In one question aimed at 9- or 10-year-old fourth-graders, students are given this example: “Children played happily in the water spout.” They are then asked to define a water spout from three examples: “a stream of water,” “two dry ducks” or “playground.”

Another example shows that “Elisabeth Howard sat and listened carefully.” Students are then challenged to identify whether Elisabeth Howard is “a kind of airplane” or “a missionary.”

[idwiyo]

1. HA HA HA HA HA! It teaches that Loch Ness monster exists!

In the past, the curriculum has drawn criticism and scorn for teaching that the existence of the Loch Ness monster disproves evolution and that humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

[idwiyo]

2. More fun questions at the link below. My IQ dropped 100 points after reading them.

http://leavingfundamentalism.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/33-jaw-droppingly-bad-multiple-choice-questions-from-accelerated-christian-education/

[JHB]

3. Nobody scams ("Real True") Christians like...

...other ("Real True&quot Christians.

It's like they took the answers from madlibs done by drunk and/or stoned college students (tossing out all the "fuck" and "my dick" answers). As long as they slap enough "Praise Jesus"s in there their customers will buy anything.

[longship]

4. The distracters are horrible.

The questions are appalling, too.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I volunteered at a small Xian school many years ago that was using A Beka's curriculum. I just about

died when I worked with a student who was studying the "fact" that the different human races were established after the Ark returned to dry land, and Noah's sons went off in different directions in the world.

[MisterP]

6. extry, extry! literalists commit eisegesis! write like Gloria Tesch!